It's like a freakin' plague.

[monkeybard]

Jon and Kate Plus 8 is bad enough.  Now TLC is premiering Table for 12.  Two sets of twins, the ad for Table for 12 says.  Two sets of twins, and then sixtuplets.  I would venture to guess that most people with only one set of twins would consider that to be plenty challenging.  Two sets?  That's pushing it, but it could happen.  But to reproduce at all after popping out four kids is nothing but selfish and irresponsible.  Stop, stop, stop putting these people on display!  Putting people like this on television implies that it is in some way acceptable that they have bred like rabbits.  It isn't.

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[fisherbear.livejournal.com]

Yeah, much as I like the idea of a breeder's license, the truth is that I don't trust a bureaucracy to hand them out. The guy with 18 kids was apparently a politician of some sort, so no doubt he'd have a license and a spare, but gays who decide to have kids would have another layer of hell to go through.

That said, putting these families on TV is a failure of epic proportions. What's next? Tonight on the Discovery Channel: "Slash 'n S'mores", the hijinks of the warm-hearted people who bring marshmallows to Amazonian clearance fires. Watch them interact with the local wildlife! Look at all the pretty colors! Fires are pretty at night. We'll be back next year with our crack squad of ghost hunters, for spooky yet funny and ultimately uplifting encounters with last year's population!

Yep, feelin' cranky tonight. As Opus might have put it, thbbbpt.

[monkeybard]

There's where it all falls down, of course. I don't think some beaucratic buffoon should have the right to say who breeds and who doesn't. (I'm still all over China for their one baby thing though. I know, I know. Contradiction City. I'm also a bleeding heart liberal who believes in capital punishment. Go figure.) I like reedfem's suggestion of proof of income. At least it's a start.

I'm with you and Opus: thbbbpt!